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Brooklyn Man Pleads Guilty in Boy’s Murder

A Brooklyn man pleaded guilty Thursday afternoon to abducting and murdering 8-year-old Leiby Kletzky, agreeing to a plea deal in exchange for a sentence of 40 years to life in prison.

In a largely empty proceeding in a ceremonial courtroom at the State Supreme Courthouse in Brooklyn, Levi Aron, 36 years old, admitted to the crime.

Wearing an orange jumpsuit, yarmulke and with his hands cuffed behind his back, Aron gave faint answers that at times had to be repeated, explaining how he abducted Leiby, killed him, chopped up his body and “took it to a dumpster.”